chastel-gaillard

Updated: June 12, 2025

On the rock at Les Andelys he built a huge castle, to hang there like a thunder-cloud scowling over the flats of the Seine. 'Let me see Chastel-Gaillard stand ready in a year, he said. 'Put on every living man in Normandy if need be. He planned it all himself; rock of the rock it was to be, making the sheer yet more sheer. He called it again his daughter, daughter of his conception of Death.

Maurice Henry Hewlett - The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay